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MKs compare Orlando, Tel Aviv slayings

Faction meetings at the Knesset opened Monday with condolences to the victims of the murders in Orlando and Tel Aviv and politicians making comparisons between the two.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid told his faction that what connected the four Israelis murdered at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv Wednesday to the 49 members of the LGBT community who were murdered Sunday in Orlando was that in both cases innocent people were murdered not because of something they did but because of who and what they are.